Nostalgic Imagination - History in English Criticism

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Sommario

• Introduction


• 1: Whig History and the Mind of England


• 2: Scrutinizing the Present Phase of Human History


• 3: Science and Capitalism as Background


• 4: Rationalism, Christianity, and Ambiguity


• 5: The History of the Reading Public


• 6: The Long Industrial Revolution


• 7: Literary history as cultural history


• Postscript

Info autore

Stefan Collini studied at Cambridge and Yale. He taught at the University of Sussex from 1974 to 1986, and thereafter at Cambridge where he became Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature in 2000. He is a frequent contributor to The London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, and The Nation, and an occasional broadcaster. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society.

Riassunto

In the book born from his Oxford Ford Lectures, Stefan Collini challenges the historical assumptions at work in twentieth-century English literary criticism, showing how the work of critics was bound up with claims about the nature and direction of historical change, the interpretation of the national past, and the work of earlier scholars.

Testo aggiuntivo

Stefan Collini's The Nostalgic Imagination... is the most dazzling piece of literary criticism I have read in ages an attempt to decode some of the historical assumptions that underlie the way in which early-twentieth-century critics such as Eliot, Leavis and Empson approached their subject, and written with a wit and intelligence that puts most current academic criticism to shame.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Stefan Collini, Stefan (Professor Emeritus of Intellectua Collini, Stefan (Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature Collini, Collini Stefan
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9780198800170
• ISBN: 978-0-19-880017-0
• Pagine: 258
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Europäische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000